Getting Personal: Selected EssaysHarper Collins, 2004 M11 3 - 416 páginas From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply meditative, and self-revelatory, with his characteristic candor and curmudgeonly charm, he explores himself, his life, his family, his religion, and his friends. |
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Página ix
... never stop aspiring in print . I don't say I attain " honesty , " but the very fact that I try to reach it gives my work , at least in my own eyes , a formal thrust , a dynamic , a topography . I want to get to the bottom of things ...
... never stop aspiring in print . I don't say I attain " honesty , " but the very fact that I try to reach it gives my work , at least in my own eyes , a formal thrust , a dynamic , a topography . I want to get to the bottom of things ...
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... never begins a sentence with a gerund . Having started many such sentences this way myself , I paid her no heed ; besides , archaic diction has always had a perverse appeal for me . I have never set out to exemplify the most up - to ...
... never begins a sentence with a gerund . Having started many such sentences this way myself , I paid her no heed ; besides , archaic diction has always had a perverse appeal for me . I have never set out to exemplify the most up - to ...
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... never be captured — some fugitive truth has been definitively cornered . " ( Maybe I should take out the reference to me , especial- ly since I stole the idea of " thinking against oneself " from Sartre or Cioran . I can no longer ...
... never be captured — some fugitive truth has been definitively cornered . " ( Maybe I should take out the reference to me , especial- ly since I stole the idea of " thinking against oneself " from Sartre or Cioran . I can no longer ...
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... never be absolutely sure if you keep denying and insisting . Just then one of her teacher pals came in , the awesome Mrs. McGonigle , who squeezed bad boys into wastebaskets . " Do you know what ? Phillip here says that he read Victor ...
... never be absolutely sure if you keep denying and insisting . Just then one of her teacher pals came in , the awesome Mrs. McGonigle , who squeezed bad boys into wastebaskets . " Do you know what ? Phillip here says that he read Victor ...
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... never received more than dis- tracted frowns from her all year long . - But it wasn't enough ; she wanted more . She and I would triumph together . I was to be testimony to her special reading program . Now she conceived a new plan ...
... never received more than dis- tracted frowns from her all year long . - But it wasn't enough ; she wanted more . She and I would triumph together . I was to be testimony to her special reading program . Now she conceived a new plan ...
Contenido
XXIV | 167 |
XXV | 187 |
XXVI | 218 |
XXVIII | 259 |
XXIX | 261 |
XXX | 278 |
XXXII | 286 |
XXXIII | 300 |
XII | 89 |
XIII | 93 |
XIV | 117 |
XVI | 128 |
XVII | 131 |
XVIII | 140 |
XX | 155 |
XXI | 157 |
XXIII | 165 |
XXXV | 309 |
XXXVI | 314 |
XXXVIII | 323 |
XXXIX | 325 |
XL | 333 |
XLI | 337 |
XLII | 356 |
XLIII | 395 |
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